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Pestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s
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In March of 1985 Gorbachev introduced his program of Glasnost. Glasnost (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations.
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The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500–5,500 km (300–3,400 miles).
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Jozef was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism
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On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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He served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech–Slovak split.
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He was the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
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in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany.
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General elections were held in Romania on 20 May 1990. They were the first elections held after the overthrow of the Communist regime six months earlier, and also the first public presidential elections.
